Miriam Daly

Miriam Daly (1928-26 June 1980) was an Irish Republican Socialist Party activist during The Troubles. Daly was murdered by the Ulster Defense Association in 1980.

Biography
Miriam Daly was born in Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland, and she graduated from University College in Dublin with an economic history degree. She became an activist in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement during the 1960s, and she joined fellow activist Seamus Costello in the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish National Liberation Army. From Costello's murder in 1977 to 1980, she served as Chair of the IRSP. On 26 June 1980, she was targeted at her home by the Ulster Defense Association; the UDA tied her up and shot her with a pistol (muffled with a cushion) before cutting the phone lines and leaving. Her body was discovered by her ten-year-old daughter when she returned from school.